The Maritime Fiddle Festival is the longest running old-time fiddle contest in Canada. It is also the largest fiddle contest in the region. Occurring annually...
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the Heritage Music Festival. It was the second longest-running fiddle competition in the country (behind the Maritime Fiddle Festival in Nova Scotia), although...
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2014 Glenfiddich Fiddle Champion of Scotland, 2013 & 2015 U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion, 2012 & 2014 Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion, 2011 Canadian...
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2018-05-14. "Fiddle-duddle". Retrieved 2018-05-14. "A Don Messer fiddle to sing again | CBC News". CBC. Retrieved 2018-05-14. "Maritime Fiddle Festival, Don Messer...
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Explosion, Halifax Maritime Fiddle Festival, Dartmouth Big Music Fest, Belleville and Owen Sound Burlington's Sound of Music Festival, Burlington Canadian...
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Music Awards Maritime Fiddle Festival Wikiquote has quotations related to Music of the Maritimes. LeBlanc, Larry (6 June 1998). "Maritimers Show African...
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continued to compete in fiddle contests and won the Maritime Fiddle Festival Champion Class in 1996, and the Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle Championship in 1993...
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(Out Of Print) The Fiddle Album (1991) CBC UG 1003 He has won or been nominated for the following awards: Maritime Fiddle Festival- Best Reel - 1989 East...
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throughout the year, including the Ice Festival in January, Dart Music Fest in May, the Maritime Fiddle Festival in July, and the Christkindlemarket in...
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country exhibitions and square dancing. The Maritime Fiddle Festival, which is the longest running fiddle festival in Canada, has helped to keep the traditional...
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Cook won the Championship Class at the Maritime Fiddle Festival in 1997. In 1999, he won the U.S. National Fiddle Championship in Weiser, Idaho, at the...
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Gordon Stobbe (section Fiddle hits collections)
including the Maritime Fiddle Festival and the Canadian Grand Masters. More recently, he often goes on tour as half of Twin Fiddles, a duo with Saskatchewan...
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A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical...
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pages 299-306. "Heritage Music Festival, "Past Winners"". Sherry Anne Johnson, "Negotiating tradition in Ontario fiddle contests," Ph. D dissertation,...
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"Maritime Fiddle Festival, Fiddle Winners 10-12". Retrieved 16 November 2023. "Past Canadian Grand Masters Champions"./ "Past Canadian Open Fiddle Contest...
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Music of Prince Edward Island (section Fiddle culture)
locations promoting local traditional music culture include: Rollo Bay Fiddle Festival which was created to preserve Prince Edward Island's tradition of music...
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Old-time music (section Festivals)
played on acoustic instruments, generally centering on a combination of fiddle (see old time fiddling) and plucked string instruments, most often the banjo...
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and noted Wilfred Prosper and Buddy MacMaster as influences. His first fiddle was a hand-me-down from his great grandfather, who reportedly received it...
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Music of Alberta (section Music festivals)
of Edmonton "Northern Alberta Fiddle Project". Virtual Museum of Canadian Traditional Music. "Soundtrack Music Festival". www.soundtrackmusicfestival...
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the Maritimes. The songs generally draw more from the French tradition, whereas the dance tunes are more closely related to Celtic traditions. Fiddle and...
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Vines. Koady Chaisson passed away in January 2022. Tim Chaisson (vocals, fiddle), Jake Charron (guitar, synthesizer) Koady Chaisson (banjo, tenor guitar...
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Cape Breton fiddling (redirect from Cape Breton fiddle music)
Celtic music idiom. The more predominant style in Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland...
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Folk music (section Festivals)
(ravanhatta, rawanhattha, ravanastron or ravana hasta veena) is a bowed fiddle that was once popular in Western India. It is believed to have originated...
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French-Canadian (Québécois) and Maritime. Frank Ferrel, author of Boston Fiddle, uses the term Down East fiddle or Boston fiddle to refer to an eclectic blend...
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Métis fiddle is the style that the Métis of Canada and Métis in the northern United States have developed to play the violin, solo and in folk ensembles...
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Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman of Choir! Choir! Choir! lead a public...
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traditional dances of Quebec and the Canadian Maritime communities of British Isles heritage.[1] The Métis fiddle tune of the same name is not actually a jig...
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Mystery (1986–) Mystery Machine (1990–2012) Mythos (1995–2018) Naden Band of Maritime Forces Pacific (1940–) Nadja (2003–) Nap Eyes (2007–) (2007–) Nathan (2001–)...
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arts organization that hosts a multitude of concerts, festivals, and workshops. These include "Fiddle Tunes", blues, jazz, voice, chamber music, and more...
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(formerly known as “Seamus O’Flanahan” and “The Best Fiddle in the West”), Accordion and fiddle Conrad Shynkar - “Steve”, Mandolin Andrew Hay - “Squid...
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